My ears are perked, listening intently to the stranger. A kind smile coming to my lips as he speaks his name. My mismatched eyes widen as he speaks of a mission, or quest as he has called it. "It is nice to meet you Knaught. A quest sounds fun! We haven't anything pressing to do." I am curious to hear more and so I listen to him continue his purpose here.
He speaks more of his quest, and I can understand the reason for his distractions earlier. Upon hearing him speak of the lost Kingdom my face glows. I find myself looking to Ruhr wide eyed before focusing back on the black stallion. "Oh yes I know Tephra well! It was a wonderous land full of bright flowers and colorful creatures of land and sea!" I pause briefly before adding, "I traveled there with my father many times as a foal. When I was just learning my shifting too! They had so many wonderful birds. One in particular was all the colors of the rainbow!" A childlike wonder is expressed upon my face, "And the fairies asked you to help bring it back?! How wonderful!" I look to Ruhr again to find any sort of expression on his face. "It would be lovely to go back and visit," I say as my gaze shifts back to Knaught, a more puzzled look coming to my features now, "Remnants you say, hmmm... I haven't seen anything of Tephra in many, many years. I would suppose it all was swept away with the lands, hmmm." Think Demi think. My eyes close as I take a deep breath, clearing my mind.
With a deep exhale my eyes snap open with a gitty, girlish smile, "I got it!" I laugh excitedly before taking a few steps back from my new friends, a look of determination comes over my face as I crouch, then leap into the sky. The shift is fluid, and where a horse had been, there manifests a large rainbow-colored bird of the volcanic isle. The wings of this form flap quickly as I lift into the skies, circling with a squawk above them. My tail fans out in a triangular shape as I turn and aim to land on the withers of the spotted stallion. My toes grip his mane as I reach with my seed cracking beak to preen a brilliantly colored feather from my tail. I straighten and side shimmy up the crest of his neck, gently tucking the feather in his mane.
Leaping back into the air I flutter to the ground and land beside Ruhr where my equine form shifts back. I am smiling, just as I was before I had shift into the avian form, "Does a feather from the macaws of Tephra work?"
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